GREAT NEW MYSTERY SERIAL
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1932.
"WEEK-END MURDER”
BEGIN
HERE
BY GABRIEL E. FORBUSH
TODAY
The story space with à prologue in which a
hays there.
The wrene skifla to the Long Island home of
Semin
"Tom"
the work-end they are in bave five. The "Oh," said Linda, relieved.
will be COUSIN AMOR PEABODY, elderly, distant relative of Linda's who was in just heard Jake's taxi-thought it New York on business and invited Nimself to WAR n cur on the rond." visit the Aver]; CAPTAIN DE VUB, an
manager of the ven Avertit works for: MARVIN PRATI former #siter of Landa LIAN SHAUGHNESSY, frith welter on
whom she has not for several years, and
tour.
Couain Amo
Keriver first. Ind Now ht to his room and then goes to meet the other esta
CHAPTER III.
the
turquoise
mured a moment and returned.
"Latcat report-Mr. Pratt has arrived, Rusie says-is installed in hits boudoir and has been told that dinner will be served in half
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Thanks-I don't smoke any-guardian of the house. thing but & plpo-and that out- "Here, old dog! doors. But, I say, there's a fat Tom Averill could not completely. Stop that!" white dog out here he gestured hide toward the screened casement. Cousin Amen.
abusement. "Sorry, "Seems to want to come in. I trained to watch strangers.
The dog's been didn't know whether you pér-leave her with Bingo lot.
We Ske initted dogs in the house
wasn't properly Introduced and "That's Bunty. Sure, Jether in I'm afraid she's a little crotclicly." plense. She has the run of this Cousin Amos sat down in a well- house, all' right."
cushioned chair.
the
Lo
little
murder is commited by a homicidal maniae over after the neighborhood club down and whistling soundlessly Later he boards train for long Island, thinking of the pleasant week-end he is to meeting, Averill had answered nin serene concentration.
"You should reprimand her," The name of the murderer le not disclosed, of the invited four not yet on deck. starting,"
New York call from the only one
None too rapidly. Marvin Pratt
he observed. "Dogs know the "I'm ready, angel, and I'm unintched the long screen door
difference between-ah-wander- LINDA and TOM AVERILL, maryled three "I told him to take Jake's taxi up slip down the back staira into the stantly there who a scuffle
she anid. Year And
"I want to and pushed it slightly ujar. In ng tramps or ruffians and-um-- love. Lindshe didn't want to be met." much nounce that instead of three reis OVET
gentlemen and ladies. A Bound of kitchen moment.
Kiss me, paws and a black, rather parcine reprimand should teach her to-
nose appeared urgently in the He came back from his struggle crack. With another scramble "She shall be reprimanded-to- some Belgian representing Eumpran perfume A discreet knock Interrupted ed affection. "All right; Binka?"
to peek at her cheek with abstract- and push the door was manufacture with whom Ararli hope to do her. Gathering
opened orrow," promised Averill. And busiseme R STATLANDE!! middlewertern
wide enough to admit the white, then, perceiving that the mint about her with the ale of en-aged to put into her words a rin Averill wagging apologetically, now sulfing about the trouser- "Fine!" she awered, and man- puffing little dog, who came up to dog, unusually suspicious, was veloping herself in a swathing fur of conviction. But it did not dis, though Wip, she went to the door, mur- the lurking uneasiness within ker. glance at the stranger standing stranger. "All right. Bunty! An- with a sharp sidewise cuffs of the other masculin
had mixed within the house, her patted Bunty absently, he saw How explosive the elements ahe by the screen door. As Averill other vleitor and no enemy!" prophetie
With a pronounced sniff. Bunty tailed to inform her.
soul had lamentably
Pratt fling the door still wider ignored Pratt's extended hand and Cousin Amos came in from and, trotting over to the casement "But I don't know." Linda cotan hour."
Going down the frout stairs the terrace.
window, dropped heavily agalast fided later, in the brief interlude
only a moment later, Tom was "Ab, Thomas-Mr. Prati! Ac
the screen. between a somewhat stiff and cocked her head criticalty,
She opened her closet door and first to meet the long-unseen for-knowledging
mer suitor, bending attentively "Thomas, I am sorry not to have tension of Pratt's pugnacious jaw. "She isn't even chummy," apolo- formal tea and a dinner of fairly
introduction, large
"It Fleur
gized Averill, noticing the sudden proportions.
Sloner "I certainly coming. I'll get another wear outcase in the big central room.
weren't over the lower shelf of a book-seen you sooner. I have been Evidently he was one of those men don't know why, but I feel very qualmish about this week-end" mused. "But it'll have to be the
that pale green
downstairs for some time-some Ince," she i "You must be Mr. Pratt!" little time. I thought it would be who pride themselves on being "Why? Everything seems going flowered chiffon. I hope we don't souncedly undershot jaw below an towards the water but this-this sensitive to the old dog's snub.
A startled face, with pro-pleasant to stroll a while down liked by animals fine!" Engaged in some baffling dance after or it'll be a wreck!"
and therefore quest which involved much rool-
iron-grey pompadour, "If my total costume consisted quickly at the words and the munthought otherwise.
turned small but determined
"But we encourage ing in neat wardrobe drawers of two layers of chiffon anda seemed for
it. There've Averill dismissed her perplexity lace handkerchief I could dance against the shelves of hooks, one way down the path for some mo.
I have been been burglars-daytime ones, too a second to recoll occupying that marble bench half-operating around here this mum- with easy-going masculine abfall night," retarted her husband hand behind him. Inwardly Tom ments-in considerable discom-
Bier, And then, too, there's the straction. "You can't expect allasvagely. "When we
kid." these strange johnnies to loosen tropic climate why don't we dress a darned
live in a was thinking, "And you must be "ort considerable," up and be blood brothers at first like sensible South Sea
exclaimed "Your small son is in bed, I quick mover-inst meeting. Give 'em time!"
Islan- come and first downstairs!"
to Cousin Amos, warming at the toke it?" inquired Cousin Amos "It isn't exactly that."
finished the sentence audibly with | Bunty,
He thought. But as his voice rose, blandly, recovered now that at- the minimum of chiffon and lace darling," cooed his wife. "You've his best assets.
get a blood pressure, the warm smile which was among cocked in his direction, advanced diconfiture.
who had kept her car tention was shifted from his own beneath a negligee that was itself a busy evening before you. Some-
"I've heard BO mere breath of turquoise air. where, somehow, there's dynamite ary surprise, the other gripped manner indicated that for all she
stiff-legged toward him, the ghost childish voice this evening, I Recovering from his moments of a growl in her aged thront. Her trust he is well?" Linda pitied from the window seat in this here party! Tonimy, I'm all his hand so firmly that for all his her husband's heated efforts to tangled-pul! it down gently own muscle Averill almost show-
was an old lady, she was stil colleet អ evening regalin that's a dear! I'll put your studs ed his discomfort. "There's a-a sort of thunder-in-" story feeling in the air."
Clad in
of
ders ?"
"Don't
of air The greeting over, the two men distant aloud a moment awkwardly, then
"And you're Tom Averill!" A "This heat has got you," pro
voice deep and resonant. The voice Even the layer of chiffon seem-of an accomplished public speaker nounced Thomas, straightening toed to add to the heat and sudden and a smile which, though humour- look at her with proprietary any Linda was xiety, "Anything go wrong to-day? horribly distressed:
not only hot but jous, relieved and lightened a face Rosie or Annie acting up."
so heavily too heavy in repose. conscious of the weight "Don't be silly." And truth to upon her and of some tell, no one could have looked hovering as of unheard of thun-each broke the short silence with cooler or less worried than she, der that she fell silent and her hasty speach. "The house is running perfectly fingers moved mechanically, and you know wouldn't let it "I wish this week-end were get my goat if things did go over!" she said to herself, and wrong. But-it's the people. I've then wondered if she had said it a sort of feeling-! When Marvin aloud. A ginnce at Tom telephoned, did he say he'd make sured her. The old darling was dinner ull right?"
"Sit down, won't you, and have "He did. "While Linda had welthe exact centre of
giving that irrepressible lock at a cigarette?" comed the Irish author, motored his heat
the back of The other walked over to the a fiul still brushing long windows,
reas
"Your wife's all right-- "Linda's conting right down." straint and this time Averill took They laughed, with a little con- the lead more naturally.
With the capture of Fort Fernandez, the Paraguayan War Ministry announced that 18 Boli. vian "forts" had been taken and six Paraguan for ta rocaptured since war broke out in the disputed Gran Chaco ragion. That the Chaco forts are vastly different from the popular conception of auch defences is shown by this new photo from the war zone. It shows Fort Mino, a group of thatched barracks.
anima!
"Oh, Bingo's always flourish-
[Continued on Pago 5.)
A photo of Mr. Samuel Insull, taken in Athene a few weeks ago. He is likely to appear before the Athens Court of Appeal in connexion with the extradition proceedings instituted by the authorities in the course of this week.
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